Married 7-Eleven clerks are stabbed after confronting shoplifter in Valley Village; husband dies

7-Eleven clerk killed by knife-wielding man in Valley Village

A husband and wife working at a 7-Eleven in the San Fernando Valley were stabbed Friday morning after they confronted a man trying to steal malt liquor and a hot dog, police said. The male clerk was killed.

A husband and wife working at a 7-Eleven in the San Fernando Valley were stabbed Friday morning after they confronted a man trying to steal malt liquor and a hot dog, police said. The male clerk was killed.

A husband and wife working at a 7-Eleven in the San Fernando Valley were stabbed Friday morning, the man fatally, after they confronted a man trying to steal malt liquor and a hot dog, police said.

The couple were working about 9:15 a.m. at the store off Laurel Canyon and Chandler boulevards in Valley Village when a man in his 40s walked in, grabbed a Mickey’s and a hot dog and started to leave, said Lt. John Jenal of the Los Angeles Police Department.

The female clerk confronted the thief, who “shanked her multiple times,” then stabbed her husband when he came out to check on his wife, Jenal said.